Surprising number of Family members and "friends" played key roles as founding members of the DLC :

[mod mom]

from:

87.5% of "Family" & DLC Affiliated Senate Democrats Voted Yes on FISA

Posted July 15, 2008

-snip

A surprising number of Family members and "friends" played key roles as founding members of the DLC in 1985 and the organization's political ideology shared, from the onset, much in common with Family ideology: so much so that a case can be made that the DLC has functioned to inject a secularized version of The Family's ideology--elitist, anti-New Deal, corporatist, militaristic, deeply hostile to church-state separation--into the Democratic Party and, in the process, paralyze the Democratic Party, tying it in knots with predictably ensuing inter-party ideological disputes.

The Family is only one among a number of secretive and cultic para-church organizations that worked, for decades, to burrow into Washington's power structures--recruiting, co-opting and even converting America's top leaders to reactionary, business and corporate friendly, elitist right-wing religious views. The Unification Church, Opus Dei and the welter of ministries operated by Bill Bright's sprawling Campus Crusade For Christ (one of which, "Christian Embassy", organizes prayer cells both on Capitol Hill and within the US Pentagon) each have considerable spheres of influence. But the Family is probably the most influential of all, especially for its pretense to bipartisanship, its central, institutionalized and quasi-governmental role in American national politics and civic religion.

Family doctrine, minimalist at best, emphasizes devotion to Jesus "plus nothing" but one might as well substitute "power" for "Jesus" and because The Family has amassed such a disturbing amount of power, or influence, it has made itself almost unavoidable - even for politicians who would prefer to avoid the group and its `prayer cells'. To get ahead, smart and aspiring politicians on both sides of the aisle will tend to court and pay obeisance to The Family and a heavily disproportionate number of the most prominent of the Democratic Party's emergent leaders have, over the past two decades, been associated with The Family, as "friends" of the Family or even as members, and have held Family-friendly political positions.

The DLC functions, in essence, as a secular adjunct to The Family - a public organizational body churning out White Papers and position papers, initiatives such as National Service and legislative proposals. It may never be possible to prove that the Democratic Leadership Council was created specifically in order to translate the Family's political agenda into legislation and to pull Democratic Party politics rightwards, but if that is not the case it might as well be. Both entities pull Democratic Party politicians rightward, towards similar ideological set points, by enticing Democratic Party politicians with, in the case of the DLC, big piles of corporate cash or, in the case of The Family, a huge, international covert influence peddling network which can establish or amplify political careers and grease the wheels towards business success.

In exchange for access to its corporate cash, the DLC demands Democrats adopt positions that might have placed them, two or three decades ago, about at, or close to, where moderate Republicans (a vanishing breed) are today but which, since the Democratic Party has slid rightwards since the 1970's, can still allow the to plausibly lay claim to being, doctrinally, democrats because democratic political positions have gradually been redefined - as a "lite" version of GOP positions. In marketing terms, this tends to place Democrats in an inherent disadvantage, as lesser or ersatz versions of the real thing or as wafflers without strong conviction.

-snip

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/875-of-family-dlc-affilia_b_112878.html

We need to keep exposing this group and questioning their motives!

[polichick]

1. Scary - but also a good case for a viable third party. nt

[LaPera]

39. Great idea - However, people have been talking about a "viable" third party for years in

both the democratic & republican party voters are unhappy with their paid off politicians (mostly in the Democratic Party)....but it never happens because the Dems & the repugs have stacked the deck to make it near impossible for a third party to compete...recently the Ross Perot had moderate success, Greens made a run at it, Libertarian party is a joke, the republican party in disguise, Independents have a few elected people...

But nothing of any major significance to scare the corporate paid off existing members of both the two party system....Both the dems & repukes have worked well over a hundred years to make sure a viable third party is near impossible to produce any long term threat in this country, they only allow third parties to exists because it looks good, as if a real democracy is in place.

It takes a lot of money to go up against well funded candidates in the two major parties, and the corporations like it just the way it is....Real, true, campaign finance reform could do it....but again the corporation & their lobbyist with gobs of money and in the end the paid off Democratic & Republican parties feel happy & secure about their jobs.

Disgusting isn't it?

It better NOT happen with the Public Option for Universal Health Care...there better be a Public Option!

[polichick]

45. You're right about the two parties stacking the deck...

But what if Dean's "You Have The Power" movement + Obama's "Yes, We Can" movement + the influx of new voters with the children of the boomers + the organizational/informational tools of the internet FINALLY added up to a new party that actually served the people and saved the planet!?

It's good to dream ~ if we can't name it, we can't claim it. (Can't recall who said that.)

[ProudDad]

58. We're workin' on it...(n/t)

[baldguy]

2. More proof that the DLC are not Democrats.

[femrap]

52. Hell, most Democrats

aren't Democrats....

[CoffeeCat]

3. I just read a bunch of articles on "The Family"...

...and my head is spinning.

It's difficult to know what is real, and what the truth is. However, one thing is certain. Our government
has been marching toward Fascism for a long while. After 9/11--through through the Patriot Act--our government
made law many Fascist tenants. We gave up privacy, we allowed our government to illegally spy on us, prevent
our travel with a secret list of 'bad people' who could not travel. We allowed Habeas Corpus to become a
distant memory, we gave extreme power to corporations over the health and safety of citizens. We allowed
torture and the installation of a prison that is located in an out-of-the-way location with little oversight.

A lot of this stuff---is evidence that there are powerful Fascists who are iteratively crafting a government
that is more to their liking---and is anti-democracy.

Our current state...is evidence that powerful forces are making this stuff happen.

[mod mom]

4. Some journalist needs to nail them down and ask the tough questions!

[Luminous Animal]

9. Jeff Sharlet wrote a book last year...

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.

Jeff is a contributing editor to Harper's and Rolling Stone.

You can read about the book on his website: http://jeffsharlet.blogspot.com/

And an interview with him here: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/5/10/112839/361

[mod mom]

10. Here's the interview I heard on NPR's Fresh Air (also worth listening to):

Family': Fundamentalism, Friends In High Places


Fresh Air from WHYY, July 1, 2009 · In the book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, author Jeff Sharlet examines the power wielded by a secretive Christian group known as the Family, or the Fellowship.

Founded in 1935 in opposition to FDR's New Deal, the evangelical group's views on religion and politics are so singular that some other Christian-right organizations consider them heretical

The group also has a connection to a house in Washington, D.C., known as C Street. Owned by a foundation affiliated with the Family, C Street is officially registered as a church; in practice, it serves as a meeting place and residence for politicians like South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Nevada Sen. John Ensign and Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn.

The Family, Sharlet writes, is responsible for founding the annual National Prayer Breakfast, a supposedly ecumenical — but implicitly Christian — event attended by the president, members of Congress and dignitaries from around the world. These foreign delegations are often led by top defense personnel, who use it as an opportunity to lobby the most influential people in Washington — and who repay the Family with access to their governments.

The group's approach to religion, Sharlet says, is based on "a sort of trickle-down fundamentalism," which holds that the wealthy and powerful, if they "can get their hearts right with God ... will dispense blessings to those underneath them."

Members of the group ardently support free markets, in which, they believe, God's will operates directly through Adam Smith's "invisible hand."

-snip..listen at the link

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106115324

Thanks for your links. My husband just ordered the book after watching Jeff on Rachel Maddow. :hi:

[starroute]

15. Except for Wayne Madsen and the LaRouchies, it's probably all true

As a result of looking into Bush family history and related matters, I've come to several conclusions:

1) Support for fascism -- or at least for a kind of Americanized fascism-lite -- was extremely widespread among American business leaders in the 1930's. Some actively endorsed Nazi racial ideology or funded domestic fascist groups. Some merely looked to Germany for a model of a government that would overturn the New Deal and destroy the unions.

2) When the US entered World War II, a deal was struck with these near-traitorous corporations. They would help in the war effort and all would be forgiven. Then, following the war, there was a massive re-writing of history to conceal the inconvenient facts of what had gone before. In this sense, Orwell's 1984 wasn't prediction -- it was a straightforward description of what was happening as he wrote in 1948.

In this rewritten version of history, the Republicans' only fault in the 1930's had been excess devotion to Hooverian economics. They and the corporate elite had never been disloyal, never turned against democracy, never looked approvingly at Hitler. The nation had always been unified where it counted and had responded seamlessly during World War II.

3) Until about 1953, there were still plenty of people who knew what was what and weren't afraid to call a spade a spade. But after Eisenhower was elected and Dulles became head of the CIA, this rewritten history was ruthlessly imposed. Much of Operation Mockingbird had to do with cementing it into place. At the same time, it became unacceptable to call extremist forces in the United States "fascist." You could decry McCarthyism or the hijinks of right-wing oil millionaires, but expressing the idea that the f-word might apply to Americans was considered almost a form of libel.

At its mildest, this was a kind of deal between the right and left -- we won't call you communists if you won't call us fascists. At its worst, it was more like a threat -- of course we're not fascists, and only a dirty commie would suggest we were.

4) There have been cracks in the we-were-never-fascists myth from time to time. The explicit reliance of the John Birch Society on fascist conspiracy theories. The willingness of movement conservatives in the US to associate with outright fascists in Latin America in the 1970s and 80's. But those have never gotten any traction. The power of the myth is too strong.

But the history of the Family lays the whole thing out too clearly to ignore -- from its fascist-lite origins in 1935 to its wartime re-imagining of itself as a patriotic organization bent on bipartisan religious uplift to its maintenance of clearly fascist doctrines for its elite inner circle. I still have no hope that the MSM will ever acknowledge this, but it's time for us to start putting the real nature of the extreme right in context.

[defendandprotect]

63. Remember . . . this is global fascism . . .

[get the red out]

5. I owe a friend an apology

She said that the Democrats were almost as infiltrated by theocrats as the Republicans. She's right.

At least some of this is coming out. And we do need to keep exposing and questioning them. Prior to liberal media and the internet there was no way to know about horrible things like this. At least newer media gives us a chance.

[elleng]

6. They're pretty clear about their motives, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQtB-AF41p8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2009%2F7%2F11%2F752404%2F-Ensign-House-Owned-By-Group-Proposing-Christian-World-Control-Plot&feature=player_embedded


We've got to follow them and 'expose,' imo.

[nashville_brook]

7. The Family is a Brokerage of Piety -- trading political favors for pious lip service. disgusting. nt

[mopinko]

13. they are the money changers in the temple,

are they not?

[nashville_brook]

35. amen! OT -- the movie" Jesus of Montreal" has the best money-changer-in-the-Temple scene, EVER!

[RagAss]

38. An excellent film !

[femrap]

53. Is The Family

Jewish pretending to be Xtian? Or am I misunderstanding your comment?

[kenfrequed]

70. No. Do not paint it that way.

That allusion is used for Anyone making money off of their own religion. Please do not try to 'read in' any (hopefully) unintended meanings.

[femrap]

75. I get the feeling

that most 'organized' religions are mainly out for the Almighty Dollar and little else.

[mopinko]

74. do you equate moneychangers with jews?

i don't get your comment.

[femrap]

76. You spoke of the

moneychangers at the temple from the Bible, right? Jesus got pissed and knocked over their tables.

Now I don't follow any 'organized' religion since they seem to do nothing but look for ways to start wars, but I was always under the impression that the moneychangers were Jews and everyone had to change their money into shekels...nothing else was accepted. Right? They had to pay a temple tax or some kind.

Things really haven't changed much, have they?

Jews weren't allowed to have land for some stupid reason, so they went into finance...at least that's what was on the PBS show last week 'Ascent of Money.' The Medicis of Florence were Jewish.

As far as I am concerned the Jews should have been allowed to be farmers like everyone else...we'd all have dirty farmer's hands then. But I wasn't around back then.

[inna]

8. extraordinary article. (make sure to read the entire thing!)

i haven't even heard anything about the "Family" until today.

it's really mind blowing.

thanks for posting this, hopefully this won't get unrecced from the GP.

on edit: rec#9.

[Me.]

11. Not Surprised In The Least

There are many here on DU who suspected as much, and that the DLC functioned on the wrong side of the tracks to be democrats. Would they have had influence in the WH had Hillary won, it's hard to say. What can be said id that anyone affiliated with this group needs to be watched closely for they and their mountains make for a very scary scenario. I also wonder how angry they are at Ensign given how he blew and has exposed them to so much scrutiny.

[RandomThoughts]

12. Not for me to judge, but the actions that come from people that believe doctrine like the family

Seem to end up creating bad things.

I think they may have this song though. Money Loves Family, that says it pretty well.
Billy Joel - Pressure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGksmlTWCFE

[mod mom]

14. "Seem to end up creating bad things":

During the 1960s the Family forged relationships between the U.S. government and some of the most anti-Communist (and dictatorial) elements within Africa's postcolonial leadership. The Brazilian dictator General Costa e Silva, with Family support, was overseeing regular fellowship groups for Latin American leaders, while, in Indonesia, General Suharto (whose tally of several hundred thousand “Communists” killed marks him as one of the century's most murderous dictators) was presiding over a group of fifty Indonesian legislators. During the Reagan Administration the Family helped build friendships between the U.S. government and men such as Salvadoran general Carlos Eugenios Vides Casanova, convicted by a Florida jury of the torture of thousands, and Honduran general Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, himself an evangelical minister, who was linked to both the CIA and death squads before his own demise.



-snip

http://www.ehrenreich.blogs.com/barbaras_blog/2008/03/hillarys-nasty.html

yep!

[starroute]

18. I keep wondering if the Family has ties to the current Honduran coup

They were linked to the Honduran dictatorship in the 80's. Jim DeMint, who's been praising the coup, is associated with the Family. And the Honduran president before Zelaya keynoted a Family National Prayer Breakfast, I think in 2005 -- though plenty of mainstream figures have done that, so it's not proof of anything.

At any rate, it's something I'm keeping an eye on.

[DJ13]

16. The list that needs to be booted out of our party

Here is my breakdown of the Family & DLC affiliation of Pro-FISA Senate Democrats who voted for the FISA bill and have either a DLC affiliation, a Family association, or both. Please be aware these lists are, especially in terms of Family membership/affiliation far from definitive, due to Family secrecy, so that the actual roster is likely to be higher.


Senate Democrats:

Mark Pryor: DLC, Family "Friend" - Co-chaired National Prayer Breakfast

Diane Feinstein: DLC

Ken Salazar: DLC, Family "Friend" - Co-chaired National Prayer Breakfast

Thomas Carper: DLC

Bill Nelson: DLC, Family member. Wife, Grace Nelson has served on Family/Fellowship Board of Directors

Evan Bayh: DLC, Family "friend"

Mary Landrieu: DLC

Barbara Mikulski: DLC

Max Baucus: DLC

Ben Nelson: DLC, Family member, co-chaired National Prayer Breakfast

Kent Conrad: DLC, Family member

Tim Johnson: DLC

John Rockefeller: DLC

Herbert Kohl: DLC


Senate Independent:

Joseph Lieberman: DLC, Family "Friend", Co-Chaired National Prayer Breakfast.


From that article.

[stray cat]

17. So who will replace them based on their constituency - a liberal dem or conservative GOPer?

Most of these are from conservative states some of which voted for McCain and Palin. Bad news - states get to elect their own representatives....and DUers don't get more votes per person than anyone else.

[LiberalFighter]

19. If they are booted out their financial resources needs to be confiscated.

[mod mom]

20. Don't we have a huge deficit? Why should their political agenda be tax exempt?

Paging the IRS!

[femrap]

54. Good idea!!! nt

[LiberalFighter]

23. Which ones are co-sponsors for or support EFCA and HB 676?

[Greyhound]

27. A veritable "who's who" of obstructionist turn-coats and thieves.

They are the core of the Democratic Party's 5th column.

[Moochy]

31. Funny how the DLC boosters here

Are notably absent from this thread.... Here little corporatist suck-ups, come and un-rec it!

[NoPasaran]

40. Why should we waste our time flinging poo with leftwing wackos?

Bigger, more evil fish to fry!

[Moochy]

42. Brave, Brave NoPasaran!

Always standing up against the ever-present menace of representative democracy, and standing tall by marginalizing "liberal wackos" on DU!

such a brave, brave little corporatist!

[kenfrequed]

65. Oh really?

So what great evil is the DLC and their defenders currently 'Frying'?

[Capn Sunshine]

32. Why did you leave off Hillary Clinton?

By accident or design? Hillary was always a "Family" member central to power plays in DC.

[PainPerdu]

33. PLEASE check out this fascinating link

THE “CHRISTIAN” MAFIA
The term “Christian Mafia” is what several Washington politicians have termed the major conspirators and it is not intended to debase Christians or infer ...
www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm - Cached - Similar

[RaleighNCDUer]

49. Because she's no longer a Senator?

But it was specifically because of the DLC/Fellowship ties she has that I put her LAST on my list of presidential candidates - and that means AFTER Mike Gravel.

[karynnj]

55. Because she voted the other way - thus would hurt their statistics.

My guess.

[fascisthunter]

47. thank you for this

[leftofthedial]

21. Gee! You mean the Democratic Party has been infiltrated--nay, HIJACKED!--

by rabid right wingers?

Gasp!

[bobthedrummer]

22. K&R

[CoffeeCat]

24. What bothers me the most about this...

If you look at what these people do, it's pure evil. We don't need to go into a list of
their wrongdoings. However, it's evident that their true intentions have nothing to do
with the teachings of Christ or any sort of morality.

I'm very bothered by all of this, because it screams pathological intentions. These people are most
likely sociopaths and psychopaths--who are using religion as a denial mechanism. They want
the poor to suffer, and the enjoy the middle class disappearing--as they amass power and money
through greed and theft. They get off on watching democracy suffocate, while Fascism takes
hold. They love this stuff, but they need religion to rationalize it all and make their
schemes palatable--and worthy of praise and admiration.

Religion can be a force for good. However, some evil people in society, use religion to build
up thick walls of denial--around their very sinister lives.

These people are dangerous--because not only are they evil-but their brains are completely
warped. There have been studies on pedophiles, that conclude that there is no typical pedophile
profile. Pedophiles come from all socioeconomic backgrounds and have varied personalities,
occupations and personalities. There is one commonality though---a vast majority of them
are highly involved in organized religion and describe themselves as "very religious".
I'm not saying the "Family" are a bunch of pedophiles, although I wouldn't be surprised if
many were.

The point is---that pathological people often deeply deny how sick and destructive
they are--by using religion to keep the truth about themselves--from even themselves.
"I'm not a bad person, I'm religion" or "I'm only doing this because this is how Christ would
want me to act" are typical warped thought processes.

I don't doubt that these people have attained power in our country. Look at what has happened
to it in the past few decades. We've been slouching toward Fascism for many years. That doesn't
happen by accident.

People are making this happen--and it's coming from somewhere--and it's obvious that they have
slowly amassed power.

[juno jones]

25. +1! n/t

[AntiFascist]

26. K&R, excellent description of what drives these people...

if they feel any guilt or remorse for what they are doing to this country, all they have to do is go to C Street and, not only will all be forgiven, but the new fascist religion will provide a working framework for screwing the populace.

[polichick]

48. This should be an op so more people will see it. Well done! nt

[defendandprotect]

64. It's patriarchy hiding behind their invented organized patriarchal religion . . .

It's a cover for the evil and insanity of patriarchy!

[cascadiance]

28. Paging Symbolman... I keep hearing Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" when this topic comes up...

Perhaps we need a parody youtube cover of that song with slightly altered lyrics with video imagery of all of the members of the "Family" shown and linked together with their power-mongering to help us popularize imagery that shows how this insidious clan works in our power structure today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROB2pawLBo

[RandomThoughts]

30. I like to play videos, but I don't make them, and I am unaware of any editing in all but a few vids

If you wanted a parody of what they are thinking about.

To think what they were thinking, to play a video of what their thoughts might be, and the place they are at.

It would probably be this one.
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfr9bhSmfXc

And it fits with many of their values also.

Plus its a sexy video. :)

[Mari333]

29. KNR...keep the light on these COCKROACHES IN THEIR CULT

[Autumn Colors]

34. K&R (nt)

[BrklynLiberal]

36. Scary shit!!!

[Moochy]

37. K&R

to the top of the Greatest Page with you!

[Shallah Kali]

41. some more info on 'the family'

The Family: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism's Shadow Elite by Jeff Sharlet

"The Family" and its use of cells, explained

Google search of Talk2Action keywords "doug coe"

NBC News Exclusive: Political ties to a secretive religious group By Andrea Mitchell and Jim Popki w/video (direct link HERE

The Wild Hunt » Interview with Jeff Sharlet author of “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power”

Terri Gross interviews Dan Balz and Jeff Sharlet on the GOP's continuing decline. Sharlet's The Family: Fundamentalism's most secret and effective group podcast

Imperial Jesus: ‘Family’ author Jeff Sharlet on the secret history of the other Christian right
"They're not interested in converting the masses. They're interested only in elites." Meet the Family.>

Worse Than Fascists: Christian Political Group 'The Family' Openly Reveres Hitler

Everybody Loves Jesus Or, the unofficial lobbying fest known as the National Prayer Breakfast (which is run by The Family)

Hampton: Religious Buddies Drove Ensign To FedEx To Mail Letter To Cindy (Buddies = Sons of 'The Family' head Doug Coe)

Meet 'The Family' (aka Fellowship or the Foundation or C Street') "Six conservative politicians living in a DC townhouse owned by a fundamentalist Christian organization. What happens when you stop being polite and start finding Jesus?"

"The Family" on C Street - Rachel Maddow Show 7-10-2009 - Part 1 of 2

"The Family" on C Street - Rachel Maddow Show 7-10-2009 - Part 2 of 2

The Religion Report (2008) Elite Fundamentism - The Fellowship's gospel of Capitalist Power (Fellowship aka The Family)

Meet 'The Family' By Anthony Lappé, Guerrilla News Network

[mod mom]

51. Wow that's quite a list. Thank you Shallah Kali!

[snake in the grass]

73. I must mark this post for future reference.

Thank you for compiling this information. I'll read it when I have a chance.

-Snake

[me b zola]

43. K&R

[Faygo Kid]

44. Rep. Bart Stupak from Michigan has some splaining to do.

Time to throw him out (Upper Peninsula) if he takes his orders from the Family.

[fascisthunter]

46. holy crap... America has a huge problem on its hands

[Odin2005]

50. Holy F-Ing Sh*t!!!

:wow: :grr: :scared:

[Octafish]

56. Money for banksters and monsters. Zip for the middle classes and poor.

These idolators worship money and power and do all they can to accumulate it for themselves.

What's worst is they violate the very principles Jesus espoused: Be kind to the weak and love your enemy.

By their evil towards others -- including millions of innocent children bombed and tortured for oil -- we know what they are.

They are the Anti-Christ.

[femrap]

57. So..it seems that the Dems

are either DLC/Family assholes or Wall Street/Goldman Sachs moneysuckers.

And then there is Kucinich and some other progressives.

We are waaaaaaaaaaaaay overdue for some kind of comeuppance and a massive amount of Secrets to be revealed.

The Family, The Moral Majority, AIPAC, DLC, Neocons, Blue Dogs.....all wrapped in religion. How far are we from what America was based on?

[earth mom]

59. I'd bet good money the DLC put Obama in office. Oh and btw, Rahm Emanuel is a DLC member.

DLC seeks to play bigger role in Obama era.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/dlc-seeks-to-play-bigger-role-in-obama-era-2009-06-17.html

DLC Membership List. This list is a few years old...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x3027


p.s. There are oodles of DLCers on DU.

[earth mom]

60. The list from 2006:

DLC members not currently holding elected office:

Bill Clinton: First Democrat to hold the presidency for two terms since FDR.
John Edwards: Former SC Senator and VP running mate to John Kerry in 2004
Max Cleland: Former GA Senator, currently backing "Band of Brothers," Iraq vets entering politics.


Jim Aldinger, Council Member, Manhattan Beach CA
Patrice Arent, State Senator, UT
David Aronberg, State Senator, FL
Toni Atkins, City Councilmember, San Diego CA
Loranne Ausley, State Representative, FL
Som Baccam, School Board Member, Des Moines IA
Brian Baird, U.S. Representative, WA
Thurbert Baker, State Attorney General, GA
Brenda Barger, Mayor, Watertown, SD
Gonzalo Barrientos, State Senator, TX
Viola Baskerville, State Delegate, VA
Alan C. Bates, State Senator, OR
Max Baucus, U.S. Senator, MT
Evan Bayh, U.S. Senator, IN
Melissa Bean, United States Representative, IL
Ralph Becker, State Representative, UT
James Bennett, City Council, St. Petersberg FL
Shelley Berkley, U.S. Representative, NV
Ethan Berkowitz, House Democratic Leader, AK
Barbara Blanchard, County Legislator, Tompkins County NY
Patrica M. Blevins, State Senator, DE
Marty Block, Community College Trustee, San Diego CA
Alice Borodkin, State Representative, CO
Lisa Boscola, State Senator, PA
Betty Boyd, State Representative, CO
David Braddock, State Representative, OK
Daniel Brady, State Senator, OH
Zach Brandon, City Councilmember, Madison WI
John Brenner, Mayor, York PA
Bob Brink, Delegate, VA
Matt Brown, Secretary of State, RI
Don Brown, Jr., City Councilman, Louisville, CO
Polly Bukta, State Representative, IA
Cruz M. Bustamante, Lieutenant Governor, CA
Robert Butkin, State Treasurer, OK
Thomas Campbell, State Delegate, WV
Jane Campbell, Mayor, Cleveland OH
Roberto Canchola, Superintendent of Schools, Santa Cruz Co., AZ
Maria Cantwell, U.S. Senator, WA SCALITO VOTE??? HELLO!!!!
Lois Capps, U.S. Representative, CA
Twanda Carlisle, Council Member, Pittsburgh PA
Russ Carnahan, U.S. Representative, MO
Tom Carper, U.S. Senator, DE
Adolfo Carrion, Borough President, Bronx NY
Terrance D. Carroll, State Representative, CO
Karen R. Carter, State Representative, LA
Ed Case, U.S. Representative, HI
Bill Cegelka, City Council Member, Lexington KY
Ben Chandler, U.S. Representative, KY
Ken Cheuvront, State Senator, AZ
Carol Chumney, Council Member, City of Memphis TN
Paul Clark, Town Supervisor, West Seneca NY
Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senator, NY
Martha Coakley, District Attorney, Middlesex County MA
Mark Cohen, State Representative, PA
Steve Cohn, City Councilmember, Sacramento CA
Michael Coleman, Mayor, Columbus, OH
Fran Coleman, State Representative, CO
Kent Conrad, U.S. Senator, ND
Christopher Coons, Council President, New Castle Co., DE
Roy A. Cooper III, Attorney General, NC
Lou Correa, Supervisor, Orange County CA
Cathy Cox, Secretary of State, GA
Joseph Crowley, U.S. Representative, NY
J. Joseph Curran, State Attorney General, MD
Lou D'Allesandro, State Senator, NH
Ruth Damsker, County Commissioner, Montgomery Co., PA
Swati Dandekar, State Representative, IA
Jim Davis, U.S. Representative, FL
Ray Davis, Registrar, Stafford County VA
Artur Davis, U.S. Representative, AL
Susan Davis, U.S. Representative, CA
Sergio De Leon, Constable, Tarrant County TX
Ryan Deckert, State Senator, OR
Rocky Delgadillo, City Attorney, Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Dodd, U.S. Senator, CT I didn't know Dodd was DLC!!
Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator, ND
Jim Doyle, Governor, WI
Doug Duncan, County Executive, Montgomery County MD
Joseph Dunn, State Senator, CA
Michael Easley, Governor, NC
Doug Echols, Mayor, Rock Hill SC
W.A. Drew Edmondson, State Attorney General, OK
Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Representative, IL tsk, tsk, tsk...Rahm, Rahm, Rahm...shame, shame, shame!
Eliot Engel, U.S. Representative, NY
Bob Etheridge, U.S. Representative, NC
Robert Faucheux, State Representative, LA
Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator, CA FIGURES, doesn't it?
John Fernandez, Mayor, Bloomington IN
Barry R. Finegold, State Representative, MA
Eric Fingerhut, State Senator, OH
Joan Fitz-Gerald, State Senator, CO
Michael L. Fitzgerald, State Treasurer, IA
Jamie Fleet, City Councilman, Gettysburg PA
Elizabeth G. Flores, Mayor, Laredo, TX
Dean Florez, State Assemblymember, CA
Romanie Foege, State Representative, IA
Harold Ford, Jr. , U.S. Representative, TN Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Dan B. Frankel, State Representative, PA
Shirley Franklin, Mayor, Atlanta GA
John A. Fritchey, State Representative, IL
Douglas F. Gansler, State's Attorney for Montgomery Co., MD
Michael Garcia, State Representative, CO
Steven A. Geller, State Senator, FL
Allen Jay Gerson, Council Member, New York City NY
Glen D. Gilmore, Mayor, Hamilton NJ
Michael Golden, Borough Council Member, Jenkintown PA
Ron Gonzales, Mayor, San Jose, CA
Charlie Gonzalez, United States Representative, TX
Phil Gordon, Mayor, Phoenix AZ
Ken Gordon, State Senator, CO
Jennifer Granholm, Governor, MI THIS is too bad, Jen.
Darlene Green, City Comptroller, St. Louis, MO
Ron L. Greenstein, State Representative, FL
James S. Gregory, City Councilman, Bethlehem, PA
Wendy Greuel, City Council, Los Angeles CA
Daniel Grimes, City Council, Goshen IN
Peter C. Groff, State Representative, CO
Daniel Grossman, State Senator, CO
Ken Guin, Majority Leader, AL
Bob Hagedorn, State Senator, CO
Karen Hale, State Senator, UT
Lee Hammond, State Representative, NH
DeAnna Hanna, State Senator, CO
Jane Harman, U.S. Representative, CA ..... FIGURES!
Jeff Harris, State Representative, MO
Patrick Henry Hays, Mayor, North Little Rock, AR
Martin J. Heft, First Selectman, Chester CT
Robert Henriquez, State Representative, FL
Stephanie Herseth, U.S. Representative, SD
Thomas Hickner, County Executive, Bay County, MI
Brian Higgins, U.S. Representative, NY
Richard Hildreth, Mayor, Pacific WA
Debra Hilstrom, State Representative, MN
Rush Holt, U.S. Representative, NJ ....damn
Helen Holton, City Council Member, Baltimore, MD
Darlene Hooley, U.S. Representative, OR
Sam Hoyt, State Assemblymember, NY
Dave Hunt, State Representative, OR
Ross Hunter, State Representative, WA
Geri Huser, State Representative, IA
Daniel W. Hynes, State Comptroller, IL
Jay Inslee, U.S. Representative, WA .....what a shame! I liked this guy.
Thomas Irvin, Commissioner of Agriculture, GA
Steve Israel, U.S. Representative, NY
Michael Jackson, State Representative, LA
Gilda Z. Jacobs, State Senator, MI
Wendy Jaquet, State House Minority Leader, ID
Nicholas Jellins, Mayor Prom Tem, Menlo Park, CA
Evan Jenkins, State Senator, WV
Douglas Jennings Jr., House Democratic Leader, SC
Tim Johnson, U.S. Senator, SD ....voted for ScAlito.
Robin Johnson, Alderman, Monmouth IL
Donald Jones, Council Member, Jefferson Parish LA
Patty Judge, Secretary of Agriculture, IA
Charlie Justice, State Representative, FL
Tim Kaine, Lt. Governor, VA
Steve Kelley, Senate Majority Whip, MN
Randy Kelly, Mayor, St. Paul, MN
John Kerry, U.S. Senator, MA
Lynn Kessler, State House Democratic Leader, WA
Kwame Kilpatrick, Mayor, Detroit, MI
Ron Kind, U.S. Representative, WI
Victor King, Trustee, Glendale, CA
Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator, WI .....Judiciary Committee member.
Richard Kriseman, City Council Chairman, St. Petersburg, FL
Annie Kuether, State Representative, KS
Rosalind Kurita, State Senator, TN
Eric LaFleur, State Representative, LA
Mary Landrieu, U.S. Senator, LA ......Mary, Mary, Mary.....sad.
Leah Landrum Taylor, Assistant Minority Leader, AZ
Patricia Lantz, State Representative, WA
Rick Larsen, U.S. Representative, WA
John Larson, U.S. Representative, CT
Joe Lieberman, U.S. Senator, CT ....need I say more?
Blanche Lincoln, U.S. Senator, AR ...........................UGH!!!!
David Lindenmuth, Councilman, Woodstown Borough NJ
Duane E. Little, Assessor, Shoshone Co., ID
Alice Madden, State Representative, CO
Louis Magazzu, Freeholder, Cumberland County NJ
Dannel P. Malloy, Mayor, Stamford, CT
Matthew Mangino, District Attorney, Lawrence Co., PA
Jennifer Mann, State Representative, PA
Steve Marchand, City Councilman, Portsmouth NH
Jack Markell, State Treasurer, DE
Lisa Tessier Marrache, State Representative, ME
Rosemary Marshall, State Representative, CO
Barbara Matthews, Assembly Member, Tracy CA
Carolyn McCarthy, U.S. Representative, NY
Kevin McCarthy, State Representative, IA
Kevin McCarthy, State Representative, IL
Kenneth McClintock, State Senator, PR
Bill McConico, State Representative, MI
Matt McCoy, State Senator, IA
Sharon McDonald, Commissioner of Revenue, Norfolk, VA
Mike McIntyre, U.S. Representative, NC
Gregory Meeks, U.S. Representative, NY
Charlie Melancon, United States Representative, LA
Jules Mermelstein, Township Commissioner, Upper Dublin, PA
Dolores Mertz, State Representative, IA
Juanita Millender-McDonald, U.S. Representative, CA
Jonathan Miller, State Treasurer, KY
Tom Miller, Attorney General, IA
Doug Milliken, Treasurer, Centennial CO
Ruth Ann Minner, Governor, DE
Keiffer Mitchell, Jr., City Councilman, Baltimore, MD
Dennis Moore, U.S. Representative, KS
Richard H. Moore, State Treasurer, NC
Richard Moore, State Senator, MA
Jim Moran, U.S. Representative, VA
Karen Morgan, State Representative, UT
John Morrison, State Auditor, MT
Keith Mulvihill, Commissioner, Mt. Lebanon PA
Charles A. Murphy, State Representative, MA
Pat Murphy, State Representative, IA
Ed Murray, State Representative, WA
Therese Murray, State Senator, MA
Janet Napolitano, Governor, AZ ....What a shame.
Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator, FL
Ben Nelson, U.S. Senator, NE ...........No surprise here!
Gavin C. Newsom, Mayor, San Francisco CA
Michael Nutter, City Councilman, Philadelphia, PA
Martin O'Malley, Mayor, Baltimore, MD
Michael A. O'Pake, State Senator, PA
Marc R. Pacheco, State Senator, MA
Alex Padilla, City Councilman, Los Angeles, CA
Alfred Park, State Representative, NM
Sally Pederson, Lieutenant Governor, IA
William Peduto, City Councilmember, Pittsburgh PA
Beverly Perdue, Lieutenant Governor, NC
Eddie Perez, Mayor, Hartford CT
Scott Peters, City Councilman, San Diego, CA
Janet Petersen, State Representative, IA
Bart Peterson, Mayor, Indianapolis IN
Gregory Pitoniak, Mayor, Taylor, MI
Jeffrey Plale, State Senator, WI
Tom Plant, State Representative, CO
Charles Potter, Council Member, Wilmington DE
Debra Powell, Mayor, East St. Louis, IL
David Price, U.S. Representative, NC
Mark Pryor, U.S. Senator, AR.......THIS explains a lot, no?
Brian Quirk, State Representative, IA
David Ragucci, Mayor, Everett, MA
Aaron Reardon, Snohomish County Executive, WA
Stephen Reed, Mayor, Harrisburg, PA
Ed Rendell, Governor, PA
Ann H. Rest, State Senator, MN
Joe Rice, Mayor, Glendale, CO
Graham Richard, Mayor, Fort Wayne, IN
John Richardson, State Representative, ME
Bill Richardson, Governor, NM
Steven Riggs, State Representative, KY
Joe Riley, Mayor, Charleston SC
Andrew Romanoff, State Representative,, CO
T.J. Rooney, State Representative, PA
Samuel Rosenberg, State Delegate, MD
Loretta Sanchez, U.S. Representative, CA ....Loretta????!!!!! Sheesh!
Sharon Sanders Brooks, State Representative, MO
Adam B. Schiff, U.S. Representative, CA
Jefferey Schoenberg, State Senator, IL
Allyson Schwartz, U.S. Representative, PA
Timothy Scott, Council Member, Carlisle Borough PA
David Scott, U.S. Representative, GA
Kathleen Sebelius, Governor, KS
Eugene M. Sellers, Vermillion Parish Engineer, Lafayette, LA
James Shapiro, City Representative, Stamford, CT
Kenneth Shetter, Mayor, Burleson TX
Ron Sims, County Executive, King County, WA
Scott Slifka, Mayor, West Hartford CT
Adam Smith, U.S. Representative, WA
Malcolm A. Smith, State Senator, NY
James Smith, House Democratic Leader, SC
Rod Smith, State Senator, FL
Vic Snyder, United States Representative, AR
Eleanor Sobel, State Representative, FL
Andrew Spano, County Executive, Westchester Co., NY
Carol Spielman, County Board Member, Lake County IL
Eliot Spitzer, State Attorney General, NY
Debbie Stabenow, U.S. Senator, MI ....crap!
Greg Stanton, City Councilman, Phoenix, AZ
Larry Stone, Assessor, Santa Clara County, CA
Peter Sullivan, State Representative, NH
Harvey D. Tallackson, State Senator, ND
Abel J. Tapia, State Representative, CO
Ellen Tauscher, U.S. Representative, CA
Charleta B. Tavares, City Council Member, Columbus, OH
Mark Taylor, Lieutenant Governor, GA
Michael L. Thurmond, State Labor Commissioner, GA
Lois Tochtrop, State Representative, CO
Tom Udall, U.S. Representative, NM
John Unger II, State Senator, WV
George Van Til, Surveyor, Lake County IN
Juan Vargas, State Assemblymember, CA
Jennifer Veiga, State Representative, CO
Val Vigil, State Representative, CO
Michael Villarreal, State Representative, TX
Tom Vilsack, Governor, IA ...... THE reason for this list posting!
Peter Voros, Mayor, Pittsgrove Township NJ
Lewis J. Wallace, State Representative, CT
Mark Warner, Governor, VA
Steven Warnstadt, State Representative, IA
Jonathan Weinzapfel, State Representative, IN
Jack Weiss, City Council, Los Angeles CA
Peggy M. Welch, State Representative, IN
Kenneth Welch, County Commissioner, Pinnellas County FL
Steve Westly, State Controller, CA
Michael J. Wildes, Mayor, Englewood NJ
Anthony Williams, Mayor, Washington, DC
Earnest Williams, City Councilman, St. Petersburg, FL
Suzanne Williams, State Representative, CO
Constance Williams, State Senator, PA
Sue Windels, State Senator, CO
Philip Wise, State Representative, IA
David Wu, U.S. Representative, OR
Barbara Yamrick, Regional Tranportation District Director, Aurora CO
David Yassky, City Councilmember, Brooklyn NY
Caprice Young, President of the Board of LAUSD, Los Angeles CA

[earth mom]

68. ...

:kick:

[rudy23]

71. Yep. Obama just moved away from the DLC in the primaries b/c he knew it was a bad brand.

The fact that Rahm Emanuel was his number one draft pick should tell us all something about where the Obama administration wants to take us.

[earth mom]

78. Yeah, Obama dodged that one didn't he? But it didn't stop him from hiring Emanuel.

:puke:

[earth mom]

79. ......

:kick:

[valerief]

61. K&R

[defendandprotect]

62. DLC exists to co-opt what's left of the Democratic Party and move it to the right . . .

[pam4water]

66. What does DLC stand for.?

[Selatius]

67. Democratic Leadership Council, but they not officially apart of the Democratic National Committee.

Or any official body of the Democratic Party. Their only purpose, their only reason, is to influence the party to their own ends.

[mod mom]

69. DINOs who Love Corporations

[edc]

72. Do you remember

how during the presidential campaign all the front runners and especially Obama made a point of distancing themselves from the DLC? Obama went so far as to decline an invation to address the DLC. However, DLC alumni in the administration include: Tom Vilsack Secretaru of Agriculture, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

[MisterP]

77. are you telling me that a violent, conservative, secretive group that demands total obedience and

global jurisdiction, and which only serves money and power, is connected to a cult? puh-LEEZE